Thursday, January 31, 2013

PAUL KRUGMAN: Obama's Depression and the Sabotage of the American Dream Starting with the American Worker


DURING OBAMA’S FIRST YEAR, 2/3s OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLGALS. THIS IS HOW THE DEMS KEEP CORPORATE PROFIT MARGINS HIGH AND WAGES DEPRESSED!

DURING OBAMA’S FIRST TERM WORKPLACE ENFORCEMENT OF LAWS PROHIBITING THE EMPLOYMENT OF ILLEGALS WAS DOWN 70%. OBAMA HAS PROMISED LA RAZA THE OTHER 30% WILL BE GONE AS SOON AS AMNESTY IS PASSED.

MEANWHILE, FOR THAT AMNESTY, THE MEXICAN HORDES ARE CLIMBING OUR BORDERS THIS VERY DAY!

“Almost four million workers have been out of work for more than a year…we haven’t had anything like that since the ‘30s” [and]… there’s lots of unused capacity…a lot of savings that have nowhere to go.”

U.S. Still Suffering Depression Conditions: Paul Krugman

By Bernice Napach | Daily Ticker – Tue, Jan 29, 2013 6:54 AM EST

When Federal Reserve officials sit down today for their first policy-making meeting of the year they should consider continuing easy monetary policy well into 2015, says Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Krugman.

“If the Fed can convince people that it‘s going to keep the pedal to the metal…that still has some leverage on the economy,” Krugman tells The Daily Ticker.

The Fed had been saying it would maintain near-zero low rates until mid-2015, and then until unemployment falls to 6.5% or below, but recently some Fed officials have suggested that the Fed may consider slowing or ending its asset purchases (quantitative easing) sooner than later.


The economy now needs all the help it can get, says Krugman, author of End This Depression Now! whose paperback edition has just been released with a new preface.

“The U.S. economy is recovering but slowly,” and still experiencing “depression conditions,” says Krugman. “Almost four million workers have been out of work for more than a year…we haven’t had anything like that since the ‘30s” [and]… there’s lots of unused capacity…a lot of savings that have nowhere to go.”

Krugman’s solution: More government spending, not less, in order to grow the economy. “A growing economy is the best solution to all our problems,” says Krugman, also an economics professor at Princeton University.

Krugman is not concerned that more government spending will lead to bigger deficits. “There is no good reason dealing with debt should be a priority today,” says Krugman, and “the 10-year outlook for debt [in the U.S.] is not too bad.”

Even a little more inflation in the U.S.--say 3 or 4%-- could be helpful, Krugman says,

For starters, he suggests that the federal government reverse state and local budget cuts in infrastructure and education. “Just undoing that would lead a long way back to full employment. It is in fact that easy,” says Krugman.


Critics disagree and argue that this is not the time to add to a budget deficit, when the debt-to-GDP ratio currently tops 100% of GDP.

Krugman’s response: Japan is much more in debt than the U.S. (its debt-to-GDP ratio near 200%) but has now instituted an expansion of fiscal and monetary policy.

“Markets are not punishing [Japan],” says Krugman. "Markets are rewarding them."

Tell Us What You Think!

Do you agree with Paul Krugman that the U.S. government should spend more now to revive the economy?

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The social and historical catastrophe confronting mankind is not simply the product of an economic crisis in the abstract. This crisis is mediated by class interests, and these class interests find expression in definite actions. Behind the central banks and governments stand the interests of a financial elite whose relationship to the rest of society is fundamentally parasitic.

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THIS IS OBAMANOMICS!

FROM HIS FIRST DAY IN THE WHITE HOUSE, OBAMA INFESTED HIS ADMIN WITH CRIMINAL BANKSTERS, STARTING WITH BUSH’S ARCHITECT FOR NO-STRINGS BANKSTER BAILOUTS, TIM GEITHNER.

OBAMA HAS PROMISED HIS BANKSTERS HE WAS NOT THERE TO PUNISH THEM FOR THEIR CRIMES. IN FACT, HE IS FUNDED BY THE CRIMINAL BANKSTERS THAT INVESTED SO HEAVILY IN HIM. NO PRESIDENT IN HISTORY HAS TAKEN MORE MONEY FROM BANKSTERS THAN BARACK OBAMA.

DURING OBAMA’S FIRST TWO YEARS  ALONE, BANKSTER PROFITS SOARED MORE THAN ALL 8 UNDER BUSH. SOARING BANKSTER PROFITS AND SOARING FORECLOSURES.

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OBAMANOMICS:

The systematic reduction of wages, the precedent for which was set by the Obama administration in the 2009 restructuring of the auto industry, has fueled an enormous boom in corporate profits, which have set records for three years in a row, and are likely to do so again in 2012. Yet these profits are not reinvested. American corporations are sitting on about $2 trillion in cash, much of which is simply funneled into the markets.

 

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The stock market bubble

1 February 2013

In the fifth year of the economic depression, and amid signs of the worst global slowdown since 2008, world stock markets are booming.

In the US, the three major stock indices have either reached or are within a few percentage points of their 2007 highs, despite the fact that the economy has stalled, contracting for the first quarter since 2009, according to figures released Wednesday.

Europe is in a state of disintegration, with Greece and Spain facing conditions not seen since the Great Depression, while Germany is experiencing a sharp slowdown. In Britain, the economy is now 3.3 percent smaller than at the start of the downturn, but the benchmark FTSE 250 index has doubled. China, Brazil and India have posted sharply lower figures for economic growth, amidst a slowdown in exports. Yet global share prices have risen ten to twenty percent in the past year alone.

These apparently contradictory phenomena—surging financial markets and economic stagnation—are in fact intimately linked. The continued rise in the markets is not a sign of health, but a particular expression of the diseased state of the world capitalist system.

The world’s ruling classes, confronting a historic crisis of productivity and investment, have responded through the reflation of asset values—and their own incomes—through historically unprecedented measures of wealth redistribution.

Above all, there has been a massive infusion of cash into the financial system by the US Federal Reserve and other central banks. The US Fed is currently purchasing some $85 billion worth of mortgage-backed securities and treasury bills every month, essentially printing money to buy up government debt and bad assets held by the banks. The total assets owned by the Federal Reserve have climbed to $3.01 trillion, more than triple what it was in 2008.

All major world central banks have taken similar actions. In July, the European Central Bank moved to lower its benchmark interest rate to the lowest level in the history of the euro. The size of the holdings of the six largest world central banks has likewise nearly tripled, to €14 trillion in 2012.

The actions of the central banks are invariably described in the mass media as necessary measures to address unemployment and other social ills. In fact, their central purpose is to make virtually unlimited sums of money available for financial speculation.

This policy is directly tied to the frontal assault on the working class internationally. Awash in cash, the corporate and financial elite insists that there is no money for health care, pensions, decent wages. Every basic right must be eliminated in order to ensure the continued flow of funds into the banks. Millions of people have been thrown into poverty, unemployment and destitution as a consequence.

The decimation of wages and living standards has the additional affect of counteracting the inherently inflationary impact of the central banks’ policy. Under any other circumstances, the mass printing of money would cause runaway price inflation, but falling wages and plummeting investment are directing the flow of cash not into goods, but into asset values.

The systematic reduction of wages, the precedent for which was set by the Obama administration in the 2009 restructuring of the auto industry, has fueled an enormous boom in corporate profits, which have set records for three years in a row, and are likely to do so again in 2012. Yet these profits are not reinvested. American corporations are sitting on about $2 trillion in cash, much of which is simply funneled into the markets.

The entire process is completely unstable. The ruling class stumbles from crisis to crisis, and its response to one crisis sets the stage for the next. The economy stagnates, and new speculative bubbles threaten to burst, unleashing a financial collapse that could far eclipse the crisis of 2008. While engorged in excess, the ruling class appears at the same time bewildered, the measures it adopts increasingly improvisational.

At the same time, the infusion of cash into the world economy is undermining the global exchange system and fueling currency wars and competitive devaluation. This month, Japan became the latest economy to announce an expansion of its money supply in what was widely seen as an attempt to bolster exports by devaluing the yen. The breakdown of the international monetary system, and consequent turn to trade war measures that characterized the response of governments to the Great Depression, are once again being repeated.

The social and historical catastrophe confronting mankind is not simply the product of an economic crisis in the abstract. This crisis is mediated by class interests, and these class interests find expression in definite actions. Behind the central banks and governments stand the interests of a financial elite whose relationship to the rest of society is fundamentally parasitic.

A solution to the crisis must take a political form. To the interests of the ruling classes, the international working class must counterpoise its own program, its own solution. At the center of this program must be the understanding that a way forward is possible only through the transformation of society as a whole, placing it on new foundations.

The only force capable of breaking the political stranglehold of these social parasites is the international working class. It must be armed with a socialist program, fighting to place the major corporations and banks under democratic control, and reorganize the economy on a rational and egalitarian basis.

Andre Damon

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WHY THE JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS: the Obama plan... NO LEGAL NEED APPLY!


“What employers really want in many cases by hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.”
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UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS OF JOBS GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS!


"We have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said. "As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to immigrants."

Mr. Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and authorizes them to work in the United States.

Some Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.

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Guess LA RAZA his happy with OBAMA’S endless hispandering! THEY SHOULD BE!

There  are only eight states with a larger population than LOS ANGELES COUNTY, where 47% of those with a job are ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! This same mex gang infested county puts out $600 million in welfare to illegals!

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“The inspections have determined that hundreds of companies throughout the U.S. have significant numbers of illegal immigrants on their payroll yet none have been punished, according to a Houston newspaper that obtained internal ICE records through the Freedom of Information Act. At least 430 audit cases listed as “closed” by the agency had high percentages of workers with “questionable” documents yet they faced no consequences.”

THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES! 

“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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 “The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.” Christian Science Monitor

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CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR

Why the new jobs go to immigrants

By David R. Francis

Wall Street cheered and stock prices rose when the US Labor Department announced last Friday that employers had expanded their payrolls by 262,000 positions in February.

But it wasn't entirely good news. The statisticians also indicated that the share of the adult population holding jobs had slipped slightly from January to 62.3 percent. That's now two full percentage points below the level in the brief recession that began in March 2001

ILLEGALS NOW CONTROL THE CA STATE LEGISLATURE WHERE ALL AGENDAS ARE FOR LA RAZA SUPREMACY!

NOW ILLEGALS WILL BE GETTING UNEMPLOYMENT FOR THE JOBS THEY STOLE FROM LEGALS!

Undocumented immigrants could get jobless benefits

By Jim Sanders
jsanders@sacbee.com The Sacramento Bee

By Jim Sanders Last modified: 2012-12-12T19:20:24Z Published: Wednesday, Dec. 12, 2012 - 12:00 am | Page 4A
Legislation introduced Tuesday would give about 400,000 undocumented immigrants in California the same rights as citizens to unemployment benefits and various other government services.

Assembly Bill 35 targets a select group of undocumented immigrants, participants in President Barack Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, who came to the United States as youths and have lived generally productive lives for numerous years.

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation, effective Jan. 1, that enables participants in the federal program to obtain California driver's licenses. AB 35 would provide them with rights to a state ID card, unemployment benefits and state-administered medical services.

AB 35 was proposed by Assemblyman Roger Hernández, a West Covina Democrat who was named chairman of the Assembly Labor and Employment Committee this month.

"California embodies the greatest diversity in the world," Hernández said in a written statement. "We recognize we will need the collective skills and talents of these young immigrants to aid out state in reaching our true potential."

As labor committee chairman, Hernández said, "I am ready to carry my part in making sure their integration into our workforce, economy and society becomes a reality."

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The Obama administration has also cut worksite enforcement efforts by 70%, allowing illegal immigrants to continue working in jobs that rightfully belong to citizens and legal workers.

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THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!


 

"We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers," said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. "President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws."

 

VIVA LA RAZA! THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION IS NOW EXPANDING TO ALL OTHER 49 STATES!*



Illegal labor pool and its impact on unemployment rates


http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2012/12/20/illegal-labor-pool-and-its-impact-on-unemployment-rates



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HERE’S HOW NO E-VERIFY BREAKS DOWN:

 

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Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal

 

CA MAKES E-VERIFY ILLEGAL! COURTESY THE MEXICAN FASCIST PARTY of LA RAZA!

 

Joe Legal vs. Jose Illegal

Here is an example of why hiring illegal aliens is not economically productive for the State of California...


You have 2 families..."Joe Legal" and "Jose Illegal". Both families have 2 parents, 2 children and live in California.

 

"Joe Legal" works in construction, has a Social Security Number, and makes $25.00 per hour with payroll taxes deducted...."Jose Illegal" also works in construction, has "NO" Social Security Number, and gets paid $15.00 cash "under the table".

 

Joe Legal...$25.00 per hour x 40 hours $1000.00 per week, $52,000 per year
Now take 30% away for state and federal tax


Joe Legal now has $31,231.00

Jose Illegal...$15.00 per hour x 40 hours $600.00 per week, $31,200.00 per year
Jose Illegal pays no taxes...

 

Jose Illegal now has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays Medical and Dental Insurance with limited coverage
$1000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal now has $19,231.00

Jose Illegal has full Medical and Dental coverage through the state and local clinics at a cost of $0.00 per year
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal makes too much money is not eligible for Food Stamps or welfare
Joe Legal pays for food
$1,000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal now has $ 7,231.00

Jose Illegal has no documented income and is eligible for Food Stamps and Welfare
Jose Illegal still has $31,200.00

Joe Legal pays rent of
$1,000.00 per month
$12,000.00 per year
Joe Legal is now in the hole... minus (-) $4,769.00

Jose Illegal receives a $500 per month Federal rent subsidy
Jose Illegal pays rent
$500.00 per month
$6,000.00 per year
Jose Illegal still has $25,200.00

Joe Legal now works overtime on Saturdays or gets a part time job after work.

Jose Illegal has nights and weekends off to enjoy with his family.

Joe Legal's and Jose Illegal's children both attend the same school. Joe Legal pays for his children's lunches while Jose Illegal's children get a government sponsored lunch.

Jose Illegal's children have an after school ESL program. Joe Legal's children go home.
Joe Legal and Jose Illegal both enjoy the same Police and Fire Services, but Joe paid for them and Jose did not pay.

Don't vote/support any politician that supports illegal aliens...
Its WAY PAST time to take a stand for America and Americans!



 

LA RAZA "THE RACE" lies - MEX FASCISM (VIVA LA RAZA SUPREMACY? obama does!)

http://mexicanoccupation.blogspot.com/2012/01/heather-mac-donald-la-raza-fascist.html

MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

OBAMA HAS FILLED HIS ADMINSTRATION WITH PRIMARILY LA RAZA PARTY MEMBERS.

Here’s his Sec. Labor, HILDA SOLIS:

While in Congress, she opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien benefits (including driver's licenses and in-state tuition discounts), embraced sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security officials to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass amnesty. Solis was steeped in the pro-illegal alien worker organizing movement in Southern California and was buoyed by amnesty-supporting Big Labor groups led by the Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol Hill firestorm over her new taxpayer-funded advertising and outreach campaign to illegal aliens regarding fair wages:

 

 

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Michelle Malkin

The U.S. Department of Illegal Alien Labor

President Obama's Labor Secretary Hilda Solis is supposed to represent American workers. What you need to know is that this longtime open-borders sympathizer has always had a rather radical definition of "American." At a Latino voter registration project conference in Los Angeles many years ago, Solis asserted to thunderous applause, "We are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not."

That's right. The woman in charge of enforcing our employment laws doesn't give a hoot about our immigration laws -- or about the fundamental distinction between those who followed the rules in pursuit of the American dream and those who didn't.

While in Congress, she opposed strengthening the border fence, supported expansion of illegal alien benefits (including driver's licenses and in-state tuition discounts), embraced sanctuary cities that refused to cooperate with federal homeland security officials to enforce immigration laws, and aggressively championed a mass amnesty. Solis was steeped in the pro-illegal alien worker organizing movement in Southern California and was buoyed by amnesty-supporting Big Labor groups led by the Service Employees International Union. She has now caused a Capitol Hill firestorm over her new taxpayer-funded advertising and outreach campaign to illegal aliens regarding fair wages:

"I'm here to tell you that your president, your secretary of labor and this department will not allow anyone to be denied his or her rightful pay -- especially when so many in our nation are working long, hard and often dangerous hours," Solis says in the video pitch. "We can help, and we will help. If you work in this country, you are protected by our laws. And you can count on the U.S. Department of Labor to see to it that those protections work for you."

To be sure, no one should be scammed out of "fair wages." Employers that hire and exploit illegal immigrant workers deserve full sanctions and punishment. But it's the timing, tone-deafness and underlying blanket amnesty agenda of Solis' illegal alien outreach that has so many American workers and their representatives on Capitol Hill rightly upset.

With double-digit unemployment and a growing nationwide revolt over Washington's border security failures, why has Solis chosen now to hire 250 new government field investigators to bolster her illegal alien workers' rights campaign? (Hint: Leftists unhappy with Obama's lack of progress on "comprehensive immigration reform" need appeasing. This is a quick bone to distract them.)

Unfortunately, the federal government is not alone in lavishing attention and resources on workers who shouldn't be here in the first place. As of 2008, California, Florida, Nevada, New York, Texas and Utah all expressly included illegal aliens in their state workers' compensation plans -- and more than a dozen other states implicitly cover them.

Solis' public service announcement comes on the heels of little-noticed but far more troubling comments encouraging illegal alien workers in the Gulf Coast. Earlier this month, in the aftermath of the BP oil spill, according to Spanish language publication El Diario La Prensa, Solis signaled that her department was going out of its way to shield illegal immigrant laborers involved in cleanup efforts. "My purpose is to assist the workers with respect to safety and protection," she said. "We're protecting all workers regardless of migration status because that's the federal law." She told reporters that her department was in talks with local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials who had visited coastal worksites to try to verify that workers were legal.

No word yet on whether she gave ICE her "we are all Americans, whether you are legalized or not" lecture. But it's a safe bet.

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MEXICANOCCUPATION.blogspot.com

From the above blog, email articles to those concerned about Obama’s endless push for amnesty.

FAIRUS.org

JUDICIAL WATCH.org

ALIPAC.us

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WE ARE MEXICO’S WELFARE and PRISON SYSTEMS!

“Mexico’s government has provided its nationals with valuable tools to help them cross the border safely but Dominguez is the first American resident, with a salary provided by U.S. taxpayers, to openly promote such a gadget. A few years ago Mexican officials published a 32-page booklet (Guia Del Migrante Mexicano) with safety tips for border crossers and distributed hand-held satellite devices to ensure the violators complete their journey safely.”

 

JOBS FOR BLACK AMERICANS UNDER THE LA RAZA PRESIDENT:


 

MEXICO’S INVASION AND OCCUPATION IS BY INVITATION OF THE DEMOCRAT PARTY, WHICH HANDS THEN ENDLESS DREAM ACT WEFLARE, LA RAZA SUPREMACY AND AMERICAN JOBS.

OBAMA, AND HIS LA RAZA INFESTED ADMIN HAVE SABOTAGED E-VERIFY TO HELP EASE MORE ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS.

MEXICO’S BIGGEST EXPORTS NEXT TO DRUGS, CRIMINALS AND PREGNANT WOMEN IS POVERTY!

AMERICANS ARE FORCE TO HAND OVER BILLIONS IN WELFARE TO LA RAZA, AND WATCH AS AMERICANS (LEGALS) ARE DRIVEN INTO POVERTY.

IT’S ALL ABOUT KEEPING WAGES DEPRESSED!

AS A NATION, WE’VE WATCHED WHILE OBAMA HAS SABOTAGED OUR LAW AND BORDERS TO BUILD HIS LA RAZA PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS.

HE HAS SABOTAGED E-VERIFY TO EASE MORE ILLEGALS INTO OUR JOBS. WORKPLACE ENFORCEMENT UNDER OBAMA IS DOWN 70%.

DURING HIS FIRST TERM, 2/3 OF ALL JOBS WENT TO IMMIGRANTS, BOTH LEGAL AND ILLEGAL.

 

A POSTER ON CRAIGSLIST:

lies about mexicans (all over)

I just had an angry mexican send me a nasty message. The usual, "We do the work that others won't do."
Except it's NOT TRUE. Black unemployment is close to 20%. African Americans used to work in meat packing,
construction, hotels, restaurants, landscaping, custodial, etc., areas now dominated by illegal aliens. Illegals directly take work away from the most vulnerable people in our society, and drive down wages to the point of slave labor. Illegals have basically busted our labor unions at this point. Oh, the other irony is that people will say that there's no work in mexico.
NOT TRUE! Mexico's GDP world rank is number 11, above South Korea, Spain, and Canada! Yes, it's true. There's plenty of work in Mexico, so Mexicans should STAY IN MEXICO. That's the best solution for everybody concerned.

·         Location: all over

·         it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

Posting ID: 3558602405

Posted: 2013-01-20, 5:18AM PST


 

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WHY THE JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS:


“What employers really want in many cases by hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.”

 

ASE OF ILLEGALS!

 


 

"We have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said. "As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to immigrants."

Mr. Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and authorizes them to work in the United States.

Some Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.

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Guess LA RAZA his happy with OBAMA’S endless hispandering! THEY SHOULD BE!

There  are only eight states with a larger population than LOS ANGELES COUNTY, where 47% of those with a job are ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! This same mex gang infested county puts out $600 million in welfare to illegals!

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“The inspections have determined that hundreds of companies throughout the U.S. have significant numbers of illegal immigrants on their payroll yet none have been punished, according to a Houston newspaper that obtained internal ICE records through the Freedom of Information Act. At least 430 audit cases listed as “closed” by the agency had high percentages of workers with “questionable” documents yet they faced no consequences.”

THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!

 

“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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Obama Administration Challenges Arizona E-Verify Law

The Obama administration has asked the Supreme Court to strike down a 2007 Arizona law that punishes employers who hire illegal aliens, a law enacted by then-Governor Janet Napolitano.  (Solicitor General's Amicus Curiae Brief).  Called the “Legal Arizona Workers Act,” the law requires all employers in Arizona to use E-Verify and provides that the business licenses of those who hire illegal workers shall be repealed.  From the date of enactment, the Chamber of Commerce and other special interest groups have been trying to undo it, attacking it through a failed ballot initiative and also through a lawsuit. Now the Chamber is asking the United States Supreme Court to hear the case (Chamber of Commerce v. Candelaria), and the Obama Administration is weighing in against the law.

To date, Arizona’s E-Verify law has been upheld by all lower courts, including the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The Ninth Circuit, in particular, viewed it as an exercise of a state’s traditional power to regulate businesses.  (San Francisco Chronicle, June 2, 2010).  Obama’s Justice Department, however, disagrees. Acting Solicitor General Neal Katyal said in his filing with the Supreme Court that the lower courts were wrong to uphold the statute because federal immigration law expressly preempts any state law imposing sanctions on employers hiring illegal immigrants.  Mr. Katyal argues that this is not a licensing law, but “a statute that prohibits the hiring of unauthorized aliens and uses suspension and revocation of all state-issued licenses as its ultimate sanction.”  (Solicitor General's Amicus Curiae Brief, p. 10).  This is the administration’s first court challenge to a state’s authority to act against illegal immigration, and could be a preview of the battle brewing over Arizona’s recent illegal immigration crackdown through SB 1070. 

Napolitano has made no comment on the Department of Justice’s decision to challenge the 2007 law, but federal officials said that she has taken an active part in the debate over whether to do so. (Politico, May 28, 2010).   As Governor of Arizona, Napolitano said she believed the state law was valid and became a defendant in the many lawsuits against it. (Id.).

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Obama soft on illegals enforcement


 

Arrests of illegal immigrant workers have dropped precipitously under President Obama, according to figures released Wednesday. Criminal arrests, administrative arrests, indictments and convictions of illegal immigrants at work sites all fell by more than 50 percent from fiscal 2008 to fiscal 2009.

The figures show that Mr. Obama has made good on his pledge to shift enforcement away from going after illegal immigrant workers themselves - but at the expense of Americans' jobs, said Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the Republican who compiled the numbers from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE). Mr. Smith, the top Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, said a period of economic turmoil is the wrong time to be cutting enforcement and letting illegal immigrants take jobs that Americans otherwise would hold.

 

IS OBAMA BUYING THE LA RAZA ILLEGALS’ VOTES WITH OUR JOBS???


THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!

 

“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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“The principal beneficiaries of our current immigration policy are affluent Americans who hire immigrants at substandard wages for low-end work. Harvard economist George Borjas estimates that American workers lose $190 billion annually in depressed wages caused by the constant flooding of the labor market at the low-wage end.”Christian Science Monitor

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WHY THE JOBS GO TO ILLEGALS:


“What employers really want in many cases by hiring immigrants is to hold down wage costs, experts say.”

 

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UNDER OBAMA, TWO-THIRDS OF JOBS GO TO HIS PARTY BASE OF ILLEGALS!

 


 

"We have a situation where the job market — the bottom fell out, yet we kept legal immigration relatively high without even a national debate," he said. "As a consequence, a lot of the job growth has been going to immigrants."

Mr. Obama did take action this year to grant many illegal immigrants up to 30 years of age a tentative legal status that prevents them from being deported and authorizes them to work in the United States.

Some Republicans in Congress have criticized Mr. Obama's policy, saying it violates his powers and will mean more competition for scarce jobs.

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Guess LA RAZA his happy with OBAMA’S endless hispandering! THEY SHOULD BE!

There  are only eight states with a larger population than LOS ANGELES COUNTY, where 47% of those with a job are ILLEGALS USING STOLEN SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBERS! This same mex gang infested county puts out $600 million in welfare to illegals!

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“The inspections have determined that hundreds of companies throughout the U.S. have significant numbers of illegal immigrants on their payroll yet none have been punished, according to a Houston newspaper that obtained internal ICE records through the Freedom of Information Act. At least 430 audit cases listed as “closed” by the agency had high percentages of workers with “questionable” documents yet they faced no consequences.”

THE ENTIRE REASON THE BORDERS ARE LEFT OPEN IS TO CUT WAGES!

 

“We could cut unemployment in half simply by reclaiming the jobs taken by illegal workers,” said Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, co-chairman of the Reclaim American Jobs Caucus. “President Obama is on the wrong side of the American people on immigration. The president should support policies that help citizens and legal immigrants find the jobs they need and deserve rather than fail to enforce immigration laws.”

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 JUDGE SOTOMAYOR, SIMPLY OBAMA IN A SKIRT?

A WALL STREET ASS LICKING LA RAZA SUPREMACIST


 

VIVA LA RAZA?

Supreme Court Nominee Member Of Mexican La Raza Group


May 28, 2009

President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee is a member of an influential extremist Mexican La Raza group that advocates open borders and driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants. 

Judge Sonia Sotomayor is listed as a member of the National Council of La Raza in an American Bar Association profile discovered by a news organization dedicated to exposing public corruption. The appeals court judge has already ignited a firestorm for publicly saying that a jurist’s ethnicity and sex will make a difference in their judging.

The La Raza membership is a fiery compliment to the now infamous Berkeley speech in which Sotomayor said: “I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” 

The National Council of La Raza describes itself as the largest Latino civil rights and advocacy organization in the United States, but it actually caters to the radical Chicano movement that says California, Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico and parts of Colorado and Texas belong to Aztlan.

The takeover plan is referred to as the "reconquista" of the Western U.S. and it features ethnic cleansing of Americans, Europeans, Africans and Asians once the area is taken back and converted to Aztlan. While this may all sound a bit crazy, this organization is quite powerful and its leaders regularly attend congressional hearings regarding immigration. The La Raza council also receives millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars each year. 

Obama even violated his own lobbyist ban to hire a top National Council of La Raza official (Cecilia Munoz) as director of intergovernmental affairs. Munoz supervised all legislative and advocacy activities on the state and local levels and was heavily involved in the congressional immigration battles before the president issued an “ethics waiver” to make her part of his administration.

In return, the La Raza council has strongly supported Obama while never the less pressuring him to do more for the race. The group was quick to issue a press release lauding the president’s “historic appointment” of Sotomayor to the nation’s highest court, calling it a “monumental day for Latinos.” No mention of the judge’s membership in the group, however. 

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Sonia Sotomayor opposes E-Verify requirement

True to form, she said it was illegal to make employers e-verify citizen status of new hires.
Interesting, she says a state cannot force employers to check if employees they are hiring are illegal. Thankfully the court ruled 5-3 supporting law. But now we know for sure just how extreme far left Obama's choice was. We cannot afford Obama to get another term, or you can bet this country will be overrun by illegals. I don't want this country to be poor and corrupt like Mexico, which it will if illegals overrun the country.

 

Much more can be done on immigration before election

By Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) - 06/19/12 07:42 PM ET



Congress doesn’t have to wait until Election Day to respond to what the American people care about. Poll after poll shows that the American people are overwhelmingly concerned about jobs and the economy. They also consider national security an important issue. By making some changes to our immigration system, Congress can take action now to address the issues Americans care about the most.

We could open up millions of jobs for unemployed American workers by requiring all U.S. employers to use E-Verify. Last year, the House Judiciary Committee approved a bipartisan bill that does just that, the Legal Workforce Act.

E-Verify is a Web-based program that quickly identifies illegal immigrants in the workforce and protects jobs for legal workers by checking the Social Security numbers of new hires. The program is free, quick and easy to use. It only takes about a minute to run a newly hired employee through E-Verify and persons eligible to work here are immediately confirmed 99.5 percent of the time. More than 375,000 employers already use E-Verify, and 2,200 new businesses sign up each week.

Considering its track record, it’s no surprise that a recent poll found 82 percent of Americans surveyed support the expansion of E-Verify. And with 13 million Americans unemployed and 7 million illegal immigrants working here, now is the time to expand this popular program.

We could also boost job creation and improve our economy by allowing the United States to retain some of the world’s best and brightest foreign graduates of American universities. Foreign students receive nearly 4 out of every 10 master’s degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields and about the same percentage of all doctorates. These students have the potential to come up with an invention that could save thousands of lives or jump-start a whole new industry. They also have the ability to start a company that could provide jobs to tens of thousands of American workers.

Unfortunately, our immigration system does not always put American interests first — we select only 5 percent of our immigrants based on the skills and education they bring to the United States. Our immigration laws should not force the country to forfeit retaining some of the most talented students from around the world. We should make tweaks to our immigration system to allow more of the top foreign graduates of American universities to stay and work here.

Our immigration system should also better protect our country and citizens from foreign nationals who wish to do us harm. Recent events underscore the need to strengthen and improve visa security; we know terrorists use loopholes and weaknesses in our immigration system to enter the United States. In fact, all of the 9/11 terrorists entered the country legally on visas. And terrorists will continue coming to the United States legally if we do not improve and tighten our visa security process.

The Secure Visas Act, approved by the House Judiciary Committee last year, helps prevent terrorists from obtaining U.S. visas by expanding the number of visa security units overseas to areas designated as “highest risk” for terror threats. Visa security units ensure that thorough background checks are conducted on all visa applicants, not just a select few. The bill also allows U.S. officials to expedite the removal of terrorists who are in the United States on a visa. Visa security is critical to America’s national security.

The safety of all Americans could be further enhanced by enacting the Keep Our Communities Safe Act that was approved by the House Judiciary Committee last year. This bill is designed to prevent dangerous criminal immigrants from being released into our communities.

Recent Supreme Court decisions have ruled that under current law, illegal and criminal immigrants cannot be detained for more than six months when they cannot be removed to their home country in the near future. Because some countries refuse to take back their criminal immigrants, federal authorities have had no choice but to release thousands of dangerous criminal immigrants into our neighborhoods.

Tragically, there have been at least eight preventable deaths because of this loophole. We cannot continue to let dangerous criminal immigrants slip through the cracks of our legal justice system. We have a responsibility to make sure the laws of this land protect Americans rather than endanger them. The Keep Our Communities Safe Act provides a legislative remedy to this problem by allowing dangerous criminal immigrants to be detained beyond six months if they cannot be deported.

Election Day might be just five months away, but that shouldn’t stop Congress from doing its job now. Congress still has an opportunity to work across party lines and take up immigration bills that will help put Americans back to work and make our country safer.

Smith is chairman of the House Judiciary Committee.

 


 

The unemployment situation is worse than this author states. Over half of unemployed American Workers lost jobs in the same professions where most Illegal Immigrants are employed. Since there are actually 19 million Americans looking for work, that means 10 million Americans are competing directly with the estimated 7,300,000 illegal immigrants currently working in the USA.

Data Source - Bureau of Labor Statistics Unemployment Report, June 1, 2012. In addition:

Construction, extraction occupations = 14.2% Unemployment
Farming, fishing, forestry occupations = 10.7% Unemployment
Transportation, material moving occupations = 10.1% Unemployment
Production occupations = 8.8% Unemployment
Service occupations = 8.8% Unemployment

Total Adjusted US Unemployed Citizens and Legal Residents = 12,720,000
This figure and the above rates exclude 6,291,000 Persons who want a job but are left out of the above statistics for various reasons.
Total Number of Americans Looking for Work = 19,011,000
That means real unemployment rates for the occupations above are about 50% larger when excluded people are included.

Pew Center estimates indicate 7.3 million “undocumented, non quasi-legal” Immigrants work in the USA illegally. A Pew study "estimated that illegal immigrants fill a quarter of all agricultural jobs, 17 percent of office and house cleaning positions, 14 percent of construction jobs and 12 percent in food preparation." That means the vast majority of these jobs are done by American Workers. These professions are where unemployment is worst for American Workers.

Meanwhile Management, professional, and related occupations where few Illegal Immigrants work has a 4.0% Unemployment rate.

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Way to state facts. Illegals used to come here and only work in the fields but there are only about 800,000 total agricultural jobs in the USA and over 12 million illegals. Most are working good paying jobs. My neighbor has admitted that he is in the USA illegally and he made over $100K last year working construction jobs. He made $2,000 a week rebuilding homes or doing cement work. All are cash jobs so no payroll taxes are paid, no social security match, no medicaid tax. If a leagl worker had these jobs then SS would benefit, local taxes, etc...

 

 

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